Neutral Tones

• We stood by a pond that...

  winters day
• a few leaves lay...

  on starving sod
• your eyes on me..


  were as eyes that rove
• some words played between us to and fro...

  on which lost the more by our love
• the smile on your mouth...


  was the deadest thing
• alive enough to have...

  the strength to die
• grin of...


  bitterness
• like an ominous...


  bird a wing
• a keen lesson that love...

  decieves
• wrings with wrong..


  have shaped to me
• a pond edges with...

  greyish leaves
• Who published this poem

  Thomas Hardy
• When was the poem published

  1867
• Form of the poem

  written in quatrains, first and last lines rhyme, cyclical structure
• Rhyme scheme of the poem

  ABBA